1. It would serve us well to embrace the beauty of our diversity within the unity of the body of Christ.
  2. We must also address the stigma surrounding addiction within so many churches.
  3. God's faithfulness is constant and consistent. It knows no season. His love for us doesn't fade with the summer sun.
  4. God made us to live together, to live in harmony with each other, to serve and sacrifice for the health and well-being of each other. When we hurt one part, we injure the whole body. And, as the philosopher, Marcus Aurelius, wrote, “What injures the hive, injures the bee."
  5. Christians have long enjoyed an absurd love affair with white-washing biblical saints.
  6. In this evil generation we’re all in the dark about something. We’re all inevitably overcome by the darkness of sin and death.